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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #285 on: October 13, 2012, 11:36:17 am »
I believed it during a millisecond...
But I quickly understood the prank.

Nice job, it would be awesome !
But I'm pretty sure the Nspire couldn't stand so much textured polygons without 3D hardware acceleration.
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« Reply #286 on: October 13, 2012, 11:46:35 am »
Yeah, I did some quick Google searches, and I think the cx is good on memory and cpu, but its about 960 MB shy of the required ram
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« Reply #287 on: October 13, 2012, 11:58:29 am »
The CX is indeed the most powerful calculator on the market, but in absolute terms, its hardware characteristics suck (yet it costs a lot to consumers) :)
They were already sub-par when the calculator was designed in 2010; they were worse when the CX entered the marketplace in 2011, and it's worsening every day.
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #288 on: October 13, 2012, 12:25:49 pm »
Well, unfortunately, calculators aren't meant for games...
TI doesn't see any use of hardware acceleration on a Nspire.

The power of the Nspire is sufficient for almost any calculation or algorithm that could be used in school (even with the awfully slow Basic)
The only big problem with that is the ridiculous price, which would be correct for a ~1GHz processor, I think.
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« Reply #289 on: October 13, 2012, 01:25:57 pm »
With newer technology, they could provide the same computing power for significantly lower power consumption - or more likely (since newer processor generations have higher clock rates by default) more computing power for the same power consumption

But even for a 1 GHz processor, $150 would remain ludicrously high, considering that there would be no video acceleration, no audio acceleration, no networking, etc. ;)
$150 gets you a quad-core (1.4 GHz) ARM dev board with 1 GB of RAM, and goodies (keyboard, mouse).
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #290 on: October 13, 2012, 03:02:52 pm »
Wow I was shocked at first when I saw the vid in your profile O.O but I felt something was fishy so I went to check. What made me believe it slightly was how slow the framerate was, though. :P For a fake video I was expecting some sort of Sony Vegas edit with a Minecraft video on top of the calc screen that is not even aligned properly, no screen reflects and 30 FPS like that Halo vid I saw once. However the slow framerate and how nPlayer, if it wasn't for the windows borders, would have made it even more believable. ;D

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on October 13, 2012, 01:25:57 pm

$150 gets you a quad-core (1.4 GHz) ARM dev board with 1 GB of RAM, and goodies (keyboard, mouse).
In USA. In Canada for $150 you most likely won't even get a dual core processor. :P
« Last Edit: October 13, 2012, 03:06:55 pm by DJ_O »
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« Reply #291 on: October 13, 2012, 03:30:05 pm »
I guess free software and a slow computer are good then.
I used some software I downloaded off of the internet to take a video minecraft of my computer. That video already had a slow frame rate. Then when I used xacto’s automatic converter, and put it on my calculator, it was even slower. But the film was real. I did have an image of minecraft on my calculator. You can believe that because you can see the reflection of the camera.
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #292 on: October 13, 2012, 09:34:49 pm »
Well even on a fast computer you can just slow down parts of the vids or lower the framerate with softwares to make it look slow. I guess what spoils it is the Microsoft Windows title bar in the video :P (assuming you wouldn't use a Windows-alike theme on your Nspire)
« Last Edit: October 13, 2012, 09:35:13 pm by DJ_O »
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« Reply #293 on: October 14, 2012, 04:53:53 am »
This is an irelavent question but how did he get a clock on his nspire?(in the fake video)
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #294 on: October 14, 2012, 05:14:22 am »
nClock ?
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #295 on: October 14, 2012, 08:17:35 am »
Yes, nClock
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« Reply #296 on: October 14, 2012, 11:42:51 am »
I think the control is a bit laggy on the kArmTi emu, because sometimes it places blocks in the background.

[OT]nClock is great, but I think if it shows the seconds it'll take much battery.[/OT]
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #297 on: October 14, 2012, 01:07:24 pm »
Quote from: Rhombicuboctahedron on October 12, 2012, 08:36:45 pm
I changed some of the code to add more textures and items, and added a further view distance
However, this made the program lag more
http://youtu.be/H858JBR6SJc
XD you could fool someone (like I did ,I love  tricking friends)
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #298 on: October 14, 2012, 05:31:53 pm »
Quote from: Wayne on October 14, 2012, 11:42:51 am
[OT]nClock is great, but I think if it shows the seconds it'll take much battery.[/OT]
The interruption of the syscall (call it refresh) is always the same and was there before nClock. The only thing that can waste battery are divisions (that are optimized here) and pixel manipulations.
It is a fact that nClock put a little bit in trouble the battery life, but I could not figure out what can be optimized.
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #299 on: October 14, 2012, 06:16:29 pm »
Well as long as nClock doesn't take more battery than nCraft or nDoom, I guess it should be ok. :P
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